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Dr. Helga Willer, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse, 5070 Frick, Switzerland,
www.fibl.org
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Information on the project Improved Contribution of local feed to support 100% Organic feed supply to Pigs
and Poultry (ICOPP) is available at the project website www.organicdatanetwork.net.
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Information about the project is available at the project website www.organicresearchcentre.com/icopp/.
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Organic action plans are a further important support measure for organic farming. In
2011, 26 countries and regions in Europe had an action plan (Gonzalvez et al. 2011):
many of them with quantitative targets. Austria, for instance, aimed to have 20 percent
organically managed agricultural land by the end of 2010: an aim that was achieved in
2010 when 19.7 percent of the agricultural land was organic. The European Action Plan
for organic food and farming was launched in 2004. The information campaign proposed
in the plan (Action 1, a multi-annual EU-wide information and promotion campaign to
inform consumers, public institution canteens, schools, and other key actors) was
implemented in July 2008. The campaign website offers a wide-range of information on
organic agriculture.
In January 2013, the European Commission announced a public consultation for the
review of the European policy on organic agriculture.1 All citizens, organizations, and
public authorities who have an interest in a review of the European policy on organic
agriculture are welcome to contribute to this consultation. The consultation runs from
January 15, 2013 to April 10, 2013. In this consultation, the European Commission
would like to gather views on how best to develop organic farming. Key issues are:
simplifying the legal framework while ensuring standards are not watered down; coexistence of GM crops with organic farming; better control systems and trade
arrangements for organic products; and impact of the new labelling rules. Other issues
are the European action plan, controls and imports.
Research
Today, organic farming research is substantially funded under national research
programs or national organic action plans, as well as through European projects.2 Even
though no figures for all European countries are available, it is known that the funds of
the eleven countries that are part of the ERA-Net project CORE Organic3 amounted to
more than 60 million euros in 2006 (Lange et al. 2007). Newer data are not available.
Several organic farming research projects have been funded under the framework
programs of the European Commission since the mid-1990s. Furthermore, there are
several European projects that do not have organic farming as their focus but carry out
research related to organic farming. In the Seventh Framework Programme for Research
and Technological Development, launched in 2008, ten funded projects are currently
focusing on organic farming. The main projects are listed here:
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Information on the Consultation for the review of the European policy on organic agriculture is available at
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/consultations/organic/2013_en.htm
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For a list of organic farming research projects funded by the European Commission, see http://www.organicresearch.org/european-projects.html
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CORE Organic (Co-ordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming); Internet
www.coreorganic.org. CORE Organic was a three-year coordination action in organic food and farming (2004
to 2007). The overall objective was to gather a critical mass and enhance quality, relevance and utilization of
resources in European research in organic food and farming. It has been succeeded by the CORE Organic II
project.
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CORE Organic II started in April 2010 and builds on the outcome of the first CORE
Organic project - successfully completed in 2007 - with the aim of building an effective
and sustainable transnational research program. CORE Organic is a network of funding
bodies and has 21 partner countries. CORE Organic's goal is to identify common
research priorities for the organic sector where a transnational approach gives added
value, initiate research projects, organize project monitoring and dissemination of
results, and consider funding models. A call for proposals was launched in 2010, and
eleven projects were selected, covering three thematic organic research areas: Cropping,
monogastric animals and quality.1 A second call was launched in autumn 2011 with two
main focus areas: breeding and market development. One project was selected for each
of the thematic research areas of the second call.2 A CORE Organic research seminar will
take place in the Netherlands on May 15, 2013, and the projects initiated by CORE
Organic II will be presented.
The Technology Platform (TP) Organics (www.tporganics.eu), which was founded in
2008, joins the efforts of industry and civil society in defining organic research priorities
and defending them vis--vis policy-makers.3
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The sixth congress of IFOAM EU was organized in cooperation with Organic Denmark
and held in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 17-18, 2012. With 200 participants,
including high-level speakers from the European Commission, the European Parliament
and the European organic sector, the 6th European Organic Congress took place at
a crucial point in time for the debate on the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).1
The 7th European Organic Congress of IFOAM EU will take place from the 8th to the
10th of July, 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
A second important event for IFOAM EU were the Organic Days in Cyprus in
September 2012: 100 participants gathered in Larnaca, Cyprus. The event was organized
by IFOAM EU, TP Organics, Pasybio - the Cypriot organic association, the European
Commission and the Cyprus Presidency of the EU Council, and offered the organic sector
and wider civil society the opportunity to discuss the future of European agricultural and
research policy with researchers and representatives of the European Commission.2
Further reading
European Commission (2010) Commission Regulation (EU) No 271/2010 of 24 March 2010 amending Regulation
(EC) No 889/2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No
834/2007, as regards the organic production logo of the European Union (OJ L 084, 31.03.2010, p.19.)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:084:0019:0022:EN:PDF. Official Journal
of the European Union March 31, 2010.
Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and
repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91
http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2007/l_189/l_18920070720en00010023.pdf
European Commission (2010): An Analysis of the EU Organic Sector. European Commission, Directorate-General for
Agriculture and Rural Development. An analysis of the EU organic sector. Brussels. Available at
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/analysis/markets/organic_2010_en.pdf
European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation (2012): A decade of EU-funded, low-input
and organic agriculture research. European Commission, Brussels, available at
http://ec.europa.eu/research/bioeconomy/pdf/189756_2011_2695_a_decade_of_eu_en.pdf
FiBL: European Organic Farming Statistics. The Organic-World.net homepage, FiBL, Frick at www.organicworld.net/statistics.html.
Gonzalvez, Victor et al. (2011) Organic Action Plans in Europe. In: Willer, Helga and Kilcher, Lukas (Eds.) (2011) The
World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2011. IFOAM, Bonn; FiBL, Frick
Niggli, Urs; Slabe, Anamarija; Schmid, Otto; Halberg, Niels und Schluter, Marco (2008) Vision for an Organic Food and
Farming Research Agenda 2025. Organic Knowledge for the Future. Technology Platform Organics, Brussels.
Archived at http://orgprints.org/13439/
Padel, Susanne; Niggli, Urs; Pearce, Bruce; Schlter, Marco; Schmid, Otto; Cuoco, Eduardo; Willer, Helga; Huber,
Machteld; Halberg, Niels and Micheloni, Cristina (2010) Implementation Action Plan for organic food and
farming research. Technology Platform TP organics, Brussels.
Schaack, Diana et al. (2012): Development of the Organic Market in Europe. In: Willer, Helga and Kilcher, Lukas (Eds.)
(2012) The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2012. IFOAM, Bonn; FiBL, Frick
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